A S-H t A N B D A IL Y T ID IN G S exclusive state fund wottld gcoord any more speedy or humane treatment in ease of injury than do dMiployersaini private >insoraaee companies under a competitive system .»ne Month ... I'htee hiotitte liix Months . . On* Yeni ___ ADVERTISING RATES Mingle insertion. per Inch ______ __ ____ — DISP1AY ____ — —- Y early Contract« One Insertion a week — —............... —........ — - * ........ — Two insertion* a w e e k ............ ........ — ..................... Dally insertion ......... _—____ _- ____..... ........ • Sate* far Legal and Miscellaneous Advertising f lin t Insertion, per 8 point line —----------1—.....— .— »each subsequent Insertion. 8 point lin e ---------------------------- Card of Thanks — ■ Obituaries, per tine WHAT CONSTITUTES ADVERTISING "A ll future events, where an admission charge to mads or a collection taken Is Advertising.’’ N * dlrcoiiiA^wlll be allowed Religious or Benevolent orders. DONATIONS No dotations to charities or otherwise w ill bo made la advertls- asg or Jot printing— our contributions will bo la cash. GIVE THE RAILROADS CREDIT A totai saving o f nearly a third in th e principal1 itftfns nf freight traffic cqsts has been effected by the railroads since the period of federal control. During the war, the primary requisite was delivery, cost was a secondary consideration. Wages were raised, equipment costs went up, taxes increased. Further restric­ tions were added by th e Transportation Act o f i9 eo « B d most roads when turned back to their private owners, were losing money. Under such circumstances, investors were lacking and the railroads set about recovering lost ground by economics and operating efficiency. The progress, they have made since 1920 along these lines looms as one o f the most important aud instructive chapters in transportation history. Freight charges were reduced during the period of V< j i . M 9 ife}, .°,f hb Wtfe’ ,Mt8’ H0M F#liCl <*«*>1 1921 to 1924 to an extent that saved shipper? $1,161,000,- Xic^°C r *,ici ««C hicago was alleged to have branded flOO of the amount they would have had to spend had the his initials on th ech eek o f W alter Johnsort (right), who b ? ? to have f«c«<* his attentions on Mm. Felici. Joknson 1921 freight rates remained in operation. •*W Mm. Felici held him while her husband burned him A butcher, after reading many advertisements in glowing terms about milk from “ contented cow s,” post­ ed the following announcement in his window: “ Sausage * SEPTEMBER IS, 1P2S WORLD’S BEST NEWS: The angel said unto them. Pear not; for. behold, I bring you good tidings of great Joy, which shall be to If you think details and persistency a ^ ju j^ essen tia I all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a to vour labor, remember the little bee which travels 20, Savior, which is Christ the LoVd. Lake 2:10-11. PRAYER: — O thou Lord of Life, be thou born anew In us. and 000 n /les to procure material for one pound pf honey then we will pass on dally the good tidings and great Joy to others until all people have received them. ___ The sumiper was getting rather uneventful without any investigating hoards functioning, hut now we have NO VALUE IN CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS! the aircraft commission, which is promising something President Coolidge lias shown such a facility for un glhig knots in American public policy that thene is exciting. observed a general willingness to anticipate that his action California will have Io raise another million dollar in the aircraft situation will lead to universal light. He advertising fund since tw o California girls won the na- said. Secretary Casaurane had informed him the Government hoped to open 5.000 new rural schools n o « ’ year. These w ill bs located 'in districts where today there are no educationnl faeflltleà a t.a ll, according to the Secretary. , “Throughout Mexico the new trend of 'a ffa ir* to apparent,” Dr. Thomas* mid. "Not only are the .youths of the country crowding the higher schools of learning, but the lower schools are receiving many pew stu­ dents.*’ tona, beauty contest. structive action. But of all the suggestions Hint have been made, the Senatorial junketing trips sometimes Mevelop 5nto one that does not appeal to us at all is that of a congress­ something more than just mere investigations. ional investigation. Senator Conzens of Michigan gets in the news with this suggestion. W e do not imagine that Lets everybody close Friday at noon and make Aab OXFORD, Engtohd— British Congress itself will take to the idea. Congressmen rarely land day a big success. astronomers and archaeologists, do, except those who find some personal advantage in pondering together over «tablets being in on the hearing or the jnuket. accomplished her object, and has which were found last year at Can anyone joint out, in the past, any great or use­ Already received the Papal bene­ Kish, the city supposed to have been founded directly > fte r the ful truth or any constructive policy that lias been evolved diction. flood, are hoping to settle the She left home with about 2*6 out of such a hearing! Some of them for a time have exact chronology of the First pesetas, and her duly means of. seemed to make reputations. Finally, they have destroy- making any -money was by the Dynasty of Babylon by these ANO them. In the oil scandal, 'for instance, Senator W heel­ - 7 sale of a postcard with the tablets. er of Montana is as dead as is Attorney General Dough­ Dr, 8. Langdon, professor of photograph of herself and her erty. And the hearings themselves do not, unfortunately, family. She undertook the Pil­ Assyriology at Oxford University, give n status to evidence. Tljey are conducted in such a grimage because of a vow she announces that one of these tab­ lets supplies the missing . parts had made. loose manner, that, they serve political purjx>ses only. which have hitherto been lack­ The people of the United States have a high respect ing In other records of Babylon. Powder blows up at a touch for men who speak up for what they know, even if there This tablet deals with cer­ and so does a friend. are differences of opinion as to the policies jirojiosed. But tain astronomical facts concern­ ing the rising and afetttng of the the American people have little patience with the rehash* Spasmodic honesty is met ot- planet Venus during the time of ing of complaints, such as arc dealt with at congressional teuer than the perennial variety. the first Dynasty of Babylbn. It hearings. to very Important due to the A man’s convictions usually The Congress of the .United States is tfoing to perform fact that astronomers believe its most useful function i f it keeps right oti along the line follow the same direction as his they can calculate from the date that has been taken by the House of Representatives — LOS • ANGELES— Resldcdts of gtfen the exact astronomical that of deciding on the votes of its members what statutes this city, which has the' largest year to which the tablet refers, New Ideas that everybody ahall be adopted. Talk in the Senate is not fruitful, and laughs at today are the big Mexican population of any city giving a means of s e ttlin g th e In America, are planning to exact chronology of the First might much ‘better lie eonfined to the Biblical limit of ideas of the future. Pleasure seems to have been Invented solely as something lor the reformers to stop. MINING MONEY SPREADS Copper has gone back up to 15 cents, and copjier mining promises well for the winter. Silver, lead and zinc Board meetings, conferences aré all up to good prices, so that western ores, which us­ and E lk ’s dabs are no longer ually contain several or all of these affiliated metals, are admitted as excuses by the mod­ em women. in demand. The shipment of a vast quantity of zine con­ centrates on a long-term contract from thè Opear d ’Alene Uea Heck nays: “Glnernlly, mines to Belgium, means a steady market for this product. whqn you want to do the- right It is the business of every farmer, every working­ thing, you find there la a law man, every stouekeej»er, to encourage legitimate mining. agin It.” It means money in his own pocket, more and lietter clothes 22 8 8 2 2 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 and food and advantages for his family, better homes and lietter schools. Mining money spreads like oil on water, like perfume on the air; it touches everybody. . STRENGTHENING LUMBER INDUSTRY - Three hundred thousand of the ‘400,000 dwellings erected annually in our country are built of lumber, and the proportion api»ears tv be increasing. General adopt­ ion of certain lumlier standards is giving assurance to lumber consumers that they will get lumber of the best utility for customary construction uses, well manufactur­ ed and carefully graded. «■ • In the past there 4ere alwmt 30 different sets of lum- l>er grading sjyecifieations — at least one for every import­ ant species of commercial t imiter. Familiarity with oite net did not insure dependable knowledge of others, and greater confusion resulted. Now the buyer has only to designate the 8|»ecie8 he prefers tor particular uses, know­ ing that the same general grading size and rules 'apply to AN UNFAIR ATTACK ____ A newspaper controversy, ha* been d evelop ed 4» ROME— Tales are many of the Pilgrims coming to Rome ■ on foot from long distances, hut surely no one has ever 4 t- tempted a harder Journey for the sake of fulfilling a vow than a young Spanish mother Who haa Jnst arrived with her three children. They left home on the ninth of Inst December. The 'eldest of the children to seven, and the other two are four and two respectively. Thee« two smaller oaee have had very frequently to ho carried by their enterprising mother. The family a id e their Journey Portland, Oregon, which strives to show that private com­ panies writing employers’ liability insurance do nnt-givt; aa oooaiderate treatment to workmen as would be accord­ ed if employers carried insurance under the state fund. * A harrowing case in cited in which it is alleged that,, an iejn ied employe of a logging company was so neglected by both the eampany and the insurance company |hat his ■ was eodangered and a leg lost' “ ittin g for the sake of argument that such a cane it in no grounds for creating a state monojioly ¡men’s liability insurance to the exclusion of ■paaies. Numerous cases have »»cert cited where alleged to have been as lax aa (he company in : te probably that in both instances the facts treatment of many wounded and r the various state and federal i ground for believing that i for workmen under an through back a proposed Mexican uni­ versity, to be located close to the boundary line between Mex­ ico and the United States. Interest in the planned insti­ tution was reported keen here, following the announcement of Dr. C. N. Thomas, of Ocean- side. California, formerly rail­ way colonisation agent in Mex­ ico, that he had completed a survey iu Mexico with a view of aubmittlog a report.to four Cali­ fornia philanthropiats, who con­ ceived the plan for establishment of the university. . Conditions in Mexico have be­ come so stabilised under the ad­ ministration of President Callcs that the problem of education has at last cbme In for con­ sideration, and 'solution of the educational problem In Mexico Is considered paramount by the country’a _ leaders^ according to Dr. Thomas. While In Mexico Dr. Thomas interviewed J. Manuel Puig Caaanrane, Secretary of Educa­ tion. who axpreased himself as a firm hacker of the proposed new university aa a school where Mexicans conld be taught agri­ cultural, mining engineering and allied studies. .• Commenting ou the educational situation la Mexico. Dr. Ttoomas 1924 Dodge Sedan .. $900 1919 Dodge Tonr. Car Beet of Condition. $276 1919 Ford Touring . .$ 75 1922 Ford Tonring. .$275 1919 Hiev. Tonring. .$125 the human contestants, la sup­ port of the evolutionary theory of progressive development of mental processes and the gen­ erally accepted superiority of hu­ man stentai equipment, there had been captured hat one of a party of six rehesus simians who fled from their large cage In Stone Park Saturday night and since that time have roamed abroad oa the trees. Oas monkey was beguiled In­ side the bars by peanuts and candies and two frolic about the cage while the other throe, one ferocious and the largest of the family, have roamed far lato the woods and a ll hope has been given ap of recovering them na- less they come hack of their own ■Park official« valued thq mon­ key« at from 226 to 2265. and also reported that an opossum had escaped with seven of hex family of alerea. Park officials were Inclined to believe that hu­ man hands had played a part In their liberatlpn. TRY O N E v F OUR fcAKES’ PALLS. t o f t f 14, — iu . f . r m a k w a r . P riM ** vip« sheep ■»**»- * * • »Ivon the nwximnm sentence t o r manhligh- ter by Jndgo A L. Leoyitt today.! ? It is unfair to at state, an employer, a workman, 'tmtl insurance companies to draw an exaggerated picture tend­ ing to warp public sentiment in a m atter of-this hind. ----- . »,... ----------- - K^ltnr iiwrt M. Irear __ ___t - ----- ___ - <e relieved of the iry- ing resp6n»ibilitie8 connected with the conduct of funeral ‘arrangements. .Our many patrons bespeak the confidence which onr service inspires. W e try to serve in a way that makes you feel that first of all we are your friends —friends upon whom yon can depend to do everything possible to lighten your burden. a« manufactured by The Ashland Creamnry aoiry product«, not eliemicats, ¡ h “A Dish of Health—Nature's Best Food in most tempting form,” . 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